Henry James

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Standard Name: James, Henry
HJ (who began publishing in 1871 and continued into the twentieth century) left his native USA to settle in England early in his writing career. Known for his extreme subtlety, verging at times on obscurity,
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press.
he was hugely influential as a novelist, short-story writer, and critic. His also wrote plays, which, however, were unsuccessful on stage.

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Textual Production Timberlake Wertenbaker
TW has done a number of translations from the work of dramatists in other languages, especially French and ancient Greek. As well as Lorca 's The House of Bernarda Alba, she has translated from...
Textual Production Emma Tennant
For Felony: The Private History of The Aspern Papers: A Novel, ET used Henry James 's friendship with Constance Fenimore Woolson , and Mary Shelley 's stepsister Claire Clairmont as source for his novel.
“Emma Tennant”. Fantastic Fiction.
Textual Production Rebecca West
RW published her first book of literary criticism, Henry James, six months after James 's death.
Hutchinson, G. Evelyn. A Preliminary List of the Writings of Rebecca West, 1912-1951. Yale University Library.
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Textual Production Emma Tennant
ET further pursued her interest in Henry James by publishing a novel which constitutes a sustained allusion to The Turn of the Screw. She titled it The Beautiful Child.
Wilson, Frances. “The Beautiful Child by Emma Tennant, review”. The Telegraph.
Textual Production Vernon Lee
VL published her collection Vanitas, Polite Stories. This volume includes the story Lady Tal, which ended the author's friendship with Henry James .
Colby, Vineta. Vernon Lee: A Literary Biography. University of Virginia Press.
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Textual Production Vernon Lee
By this date, according to Julia Briggs , she had already fallen under the influence of Nathaniel Hawthorne 's The Marble Faun, 1860, (an influence she shared with Henry James ).
Briggs, Julia. Night Visitors. Faber.
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Textual Production George Eliot
The previous year young William Blackwood reported her anxiety and reluctance at the prospect of having the manuscript of this first part taken from her, as if it were her baby.
Eliot, George. The George Eliot Letters. Editor Haight, Gordon S., Yale University Press.
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Textual Production Elizabeth Jolley
EJ invoked as an appropriate description of her own motivation, Flaubert 's dictum that writing comes from an inner wound.
Joussen, Ulla. “An Interview with Elizabeth Jolley”. Kunapipi, Vol.
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She said of Johnson 's Rasselas and Goethe 's Elective Affinities (both of which...
Textual Production Elizabeth Robins
ER published Theatre and Friendship: Some Henry James Letters, a collection of her letters from James .
John, Angela V. Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life, 1862-1952. Routledge.
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TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
1589 (14 July 1932): 512
Textual Production Ford Madox Ford
FMF published a volume of art criticism, Rossetti : A Critical Essay on His Art, in 1902. He followed this with a work of social criticism, The Soul of London, 1905, which he...
Textual Production Michelene Wandor
Novels adapted by MW are not restricted to those by women. Works by male writers she has revised for broadcasting include Kipps by H. G. Wells , aired on Radio 4 in 1984 and runner-up...
Textual Production Anita Brookner
AB headed her latest novel, A Closed Eye, with a quotation from Madame de Mauves by Henry James .
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
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Brookner, Anita. A Closed Eye. Random House.
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Textual Features Anita Brookner
The novels have been said to owe more to the French tradition than to the English—though French critics have read her as belonging to an English women's tradition, while English reviewers have cited most frequently...
Textual Features Margaret Kennedy
Here Kennedy argues that entertainment and enjoyment are valuable aims for the novel. She maintains that the novelist is, in essence, a storyteller, but the storyteller-novelist has been excluded by a literary society that devalues...
Textual Features Virginia Woolf
This is the first of Woolf's a London novels, and is set unambiguously in the recent past, in the period of the suffrage struggle before the first world war. It is a story of courtship...

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